The children, who have fair skin, asked why their grandpa’s skin was darker.
It took questions from her children about their heritage and a lot of time spent in cemeteries for Karen Hoshal to piece together her family history.
It was only after her children, who have fair skin, started asking why their grandpa’s skin was darker that Hoshal started looking into her family history in earnest.She pieced together the stories of Nancy and Charles Alexander and her other relatives by reading funeral parlour records. “I didn’t know they were important. They were just my great grandparents.”
The Alexanders answered that call, travelling to Victoria by ship with their two children. They settled in Central Saanich, where Charles Alexander, a carpenter, made his mark on the community.
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